Canadian Soccer Staff Kicked Out of Olympics For Cheating:
A Canadian assistant women's soccer coach and an analyst have been kicked off the Olympic team after New Zealand's team said their training session was disrupted by a drone flown by their Team Canada opponents.
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Since when were drones allowed at the Olympics to observe other teams practice? The coach was forced to apologize, but should not have allowed this to happen. Coaches need to control the behavior of their staff!!!!!!!
This is way too stupid to have merit. Just a lot of hype for no reason. Canada will win over New Zealand because they are a much better team.
First off almost every game a national team plays is televised and recorded and can be seen and studied by all teams and coaches how is videotaping a practice going to make such a huge difference.
There is not much advantage to be had seeing practices other than maybe seeing set plays like corner kicks and free kicks within close range to goal or penalty kicks being practised and 99 times out of 100 what they practice doesn’t work out the same because the kick is too, short too long, the player is in an off side position etc….
You think watching Messi or Ronaldo at practice is such a huge advantage, these guys have a million moves and react to the flow of the game and the circumstances, same is true with the best of the women players.
They could have watched every second of Spain’s practices and what they would have learned is that they were by far the best team at the Euros and would likely win, and win they did. They showed that every game they played didn’t need to spy on their practices.
